stoop
verb (used without object)
to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position.
is stooping
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present progressiveof stoop (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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If there is anything more sickening than O’Reilly’s reported behavior, it is stooping to use his own children as a shield and the excuse of fatherly love to evade responsibility.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2017
Besides, it is impossible for any officer not to feel that in taking such inferior command, although it is even for the avowed purpose of raising its dignity, that he is stooping to do so.
From Forty-Six Years in the Army by John M. Schofield
If it is stooping, speak to me only of arms and shoulders; I will take all else on myself.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley
He is stooping over the fire, with a small but long-handled frying-pan, in which he is parching the coffee.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid
He is stooping to pick them up, and tucks them under his arm like a cocked hat.
From The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels by Julian Hawthorne
